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Monday, August 31, 2015

Keeping the Peace?

The next day, after armed clashes with residents had killed
a soldier from Cameroon and injured several others, peacekeepers went to the
area and “began shooting indiscriminately in the street where the killings had
taken place,” Amnesty alleged. Joanne Mariner, its senior crisis response
adviser, said: “These allegations of rape and indiscriminate killings committed
by UN troops are supported by physical evidence and multiple witness accounts.

UN peacekeepers have been in CAR since September last year. Ban
Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general, was “personally dismayed and disappointed,
not just by these latest reports, but by the series of allegations that have
surfaced in the Central African Republic mission in recent months”, his
spokesman, Stéphane Dujarric, said. Earlier this year it emerged that French
peacekeeping troops had been accused of abusing children in CAR.